Description by Tracy Carman
The final format of WNBC prior to its demise was “The Time Machine”. As a long time listener and fan of the radio station, it was interesting to hear it transformed into an oldies format complete with reverb and historic PAMS jingles.
While the station bought many PAMS jingles, sung by both the KenR vocal group in Toledo and the CPMG vocalists assembled in Dallas, the station wanted a more authentic sound to the cuts as heard originally on WABC. So, Dale Parsons, Program Director of WNBC and Dan Taylor, station personality, pulled out a razor blade and explained it to the singers. The end results are heard here… a combination of cuts utilizing the jingles as delivered by CPMG/PAMS integrated with vocals from the WABC and WGH versions of the same jingles. There was also a little late night New York singing, if you listen carefully, and some clever work with the Harmonizer and a vocal eliminator.
In addition, Dan Taylor had a home-made sonovox and, coupled with Programming Assistant Jim Collins’ keyboard overlays, imagineered some additional cuts and “re-creations” for use on the air.
Special thanks to Ron Harris for providing a dub of these air versions of the cuts and to Dale Parsons for “the real story” behind them.